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by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
Maher asks Chris Dodd about marijuana legalization, Retirement Living on medical marijuana, Balko on federalism, Cannabinoid Chronicles, Canadian Medical Association Journal on medical marijuana dosages, Australian National Council on Drugs, DrugTruth Network.

Resource: Reformer's Calendar Accessible Through DRCNet Web Site

by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Resource: DRCNet Web Site Offers Wide Array of RSS Feeds for Your Reader

by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Webmasters: Help the Movement by Running DRCNet Syndication Feeds on Your Web Site!

by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
Support the cause by featuring automatically-updating Drug War Chronicle and other DRCNet content links on your web site!

Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!

by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
Apply for an internship at DRCNet for this fall (or spring), and you could spend the semester fighting the good fight!

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
Do you read Drug War Chronicle? If so, we need your feedback to evaluate our work and make the case for Drug War Chronicle to funders. We need donations too.

Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
"Wrong Door Drug Raid Disrupts Family Dinner," "Rising Cocaine Prices Don't Mean We're Winning the Drug War," "Bad Cop Caught on Camera," "More Fun With Numbers at ONDCP," DEA Agent Admits The Drug War Funds Terrorism," "DEA Agent Admits Medical Marijuana Laws Work," Bryan Epis, "Take this drug tax and...", more...

Appeal: Massive Increases to Our Web Site Traffic Have Increased Our Costs...

by borden, September 14, 2007, 12:00am, (Issue #501)
Massive increases to our web site traffic, particularly during the last three months, have forced us to upgrade our web server -- not once, but twice -- and have increased our costs. We need your help to pay for it.

Sacramento: Please Attend Medical Marijuana Activist Bryan Epis Federal Resentencing Hearing Friday

by borden, September 11, 2007, 10:03pm
Bryan Epis, a former medical marijuana provider who was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, and served two years before being released in the wake of the Raich medical marijuana decision, is retu

Web Scan

by borden, September 07, 2007, 04:52am, (Issue #500)
Tierney blog on legalization and pain prosecutions, Transnational Institute on Colombian coca and Afghan opium, drug offense death penalties as international human rights violation, net Asian Drug Users Network, DrugTruth Network update.

Conference: Drug Policy Alliance, New Orleans, December 2007

by borden, September 07, 2007, 04:38am, (Issue #500)
A major gathering of drug reform forces is planned for late this year, and special registration rates are available for those who plan early.

Students: Intern at DRCNet and Help Stop the Drug War!

by borden, September 07, 2007, 04:35am, (Issue #500)
Apply for an internship at DRCNet for this fall (or spring), and you could spend the semester fighting the good fight!

Editorial: Why We Are Fighting to End the War on Drugs

by borden, September 06, 2007, 07:58pm, (Issue #500)
We in the drug reform movement have so many good reasons to stand on, that it is hard to know where to begin when telling people about them. When we succeed in ending prohibition, the world will become a better place, in ways that are urgently needed.

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:58pm, (Issue #500)
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Proposals: IHRD Providing Small Grants on Health and Human Rights, 2008 UN Drug Summit

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:58pm, (Issue #500)
The International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD) of the Open Society Institute (OSI) is offering small grants to support the collection and presentation of information that evaluate the health and human rights consequences, with regard to injection drug use-driven HIV infections, of the resolutions taken at the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs.

Job Announcement: Executive Director, Justice Policy Institute

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:57pm, (Issue #500)
The DC-based think tank is hiring a new leader as it moves forward seeking to end society's reliance on incarceration and promoting effective solutions to social problems.

Resource: Reformer's Calendar Accessible Through DRCNet Web Site

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:50pm, (Issue #500)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Webmasters: Help the Movement by Running DRCNet Syndication Feeds on Your Web Site!

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:49pm, (Issue #500)
Support the cause by featuring automatically-updating Drug War Chronicle and other DRCNet content links on your web site!

Resource: DRCNet Web Site Offers Wide Array of RSS Feeds for Your Reader

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:49pm, (Issue #500)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:45pm, (Issue #500)
Marijuana critics who take beer company money, drug testing and hard drug use, Obama and New Orleans drug war, feds raid paraplegic, "Don't Smoke Pot in Your Car," John McCain and another lost war, more...

Appeal: Massive Increases to Our Web Site Traffic Have Increased Our Costs...

by borden, September 06, 2007, 06:43pm, (Issue #500)
Massive increases to our web site traffic, particularly during the last three months, have forced us to upgrade our web server -- not once, but twice -- and have increased our costs. We need your help to pay for it.

It's Time for Medical Marijuana "Plan B"

by borden, August 29, 2007, 02:31pm
Did you know that along with raiding medical marijuana clinics and prosecuting people, the DEA is actually blocking research into medical marijuana too -- research that if allowed to take place could

Appeal: Massive Increases to Our Web Site Traffic Have Increased Our Costs...

by borden, August 23, 2007, 11:32pm, (Issue #499)
Massive increases to our web site traffic, particularly during the last three months, have forced us to upgrade our web server -- not once, but twice -- and have increased our costs. We need your help to pay for it.

Resource: DRCNet Web Site Offers Wide Array of RSS Feeds for Your Reader

by borden, August 23, 2007, 10:56pm, (Issue #499)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Webmasters: Help the Movement by Running DRCNet Syndication Feeds on Your Web Site!

by borden, August 23, 2007, 10:56pm, (Issue #499)
Support the cause by featuring automatically-updating Drug War Chronicle and other DRCNet content links on your web site!

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, August 23, 2007, 10:56pm, (Issue #499)
Do you read Drug War Chronicle? If so, we need your feedback to evaluate our work and make the case for Drug War Chronicle to funders. We need donations too.

Resource: Reformer's Calendar Accessible Through DRCNet Web Site

by borden, August 23, 2007, 10:55pm, (Issue #499)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, August 23, 2007, 10:49pm, (Issue #499)
Visit DRCNet's "Speakeasy" blog every day for extensive discussion of the latest developments in drug policy.

Pain News

by borden, August 20, 2007, 10:42pm
Pain Relief Network's Siobhan Reynolds and son are slated to appear on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet --- tomorrow morning, I thi

New Mexico Medical Marijuana Update -- Richardson Says Full Steam Ahead Despite Attorney General's "Prank"

by borden, August 18, 2007, 02:29pm
Late Thursday night we reported in the Chronicle that New Mexico's Dept.

Editorial: Drug Prohibition from Colombia to Afghanistan This Week

by borden, August 17, 2007, 12:15am, (Issue #498)
Given what has happened in Colombia the last several decades, given what has happened in Afghanistan -- and how it has affected us here -- is any more evidence needed of how morally and intellectually defunct is drug prohibition?

Medical Marijuana: A Push Gets Underway in Kansas

by borden, August 16, 2007, 11:07pm, (Issue #498)
While state medical marijuana laws are in place along both coasts, not a single state from the Great Plains to the Appalachian Mountains has passed such a law. Now, a Kansas drug reform activist and a prominent state politician are hoping to change that.

Web Scan

by borden, August 16, 2007, 11:06pm, (Issue #498)
Upside Down Flag by Tony Papa, When Neither Crime Nor Punishment Pays by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Bulgarian activist Milena Naydenova, DrugTruth Network.

Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, August 16, 2007, 11:06pm, (Issue #498)
"What's a gram of cocaine go for where you live?" Who Should Be the Next Drug Czar?" "New Afghanistan Strategy is Exactly the Same as the Old One That Didn't Work." "Who's Planting All That Pot in the Woods?" "Police Often Lack Basic Knowledge About Marijuana," Thailand drug war killings, more.

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, August 16, 2007, 10:07pm, (Issue #498)
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Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!

by borden, August 16, 2007, 10:05pm, (Issue #498)
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Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available

by borden, August 16, 2007, 10:05pm, (Issue #498)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Press Release: Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars

by borden, August 16, 2007, 10:04pm, (Issue #498)
A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars per year in anticipated post-legalization tax revenues to solve the current state budget crisis.

Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar

by borden, August 16, 2007, 10:04pm, (Issue #498)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

drug war killings

by borden, August 10, 2007, 09:21pm
One of the articles we published in the Chronicle this morning is a newsbrief about investigations starting in Thailand about the 2,500 extra-judicial drug war killings.

Editorial: Why Do People the Government Says Don't Exist Keep Writing Me?

by borden, August 10, 2007, 03:12am, (Issue #497)
Prohibitionists are fond of referring to medical marijuana as a "hoax" -- a "cruel hoax," when they get excited. But calling it a hoax is the real hoax, and we know because the real live patients keep writing us.

Action Item: If You're on Facebook, Your Help is Needed Today!

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:51pm, (Issue #497)
Facebook users, please help our friends at Students for Sensible Drug Policy get a Facebook "Speed Grant" for an important campaign that we're working on too.

Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:50pm, (Issue #497)
Support the cause by featuring automatically-updating Drug War Chronicle and other DRCNet content links on your web site!

Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:50pm, (Issue #497)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:50pm, (Issue #497)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Job Listing: Opportunities at the Marijuana Policy Project

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:34pm, (Issue #497)
MPP is hiring a government relations director in Washington, and petitioners and team leaders for efforts in Arizona and Michigan.

Web Scan

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:29pm, (Issue #497)
Transform guide to making the case, UK MP Harry Cohen, IDPC critique of World Drug Report, Huffington Post on the marijuana-mental illness craze, Dominic Holden in Seattle's The Stranger, The Arrest of Michael C. Kelley, Howard Lotsof ibogaine video, Legalise Drugs to Beat Terrorists editorial, review of Canada's medical marijuana program, Tony Papa, DrugTruth Network, Hecklers on prison abolition.

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:29pm, (Issue #497)
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Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, August 09, 2007, 10:28pm, (Issue #497)
"Jury Duty: A Day in the Life of Our Corrupt War on Drugs," "Marijuana Dealers Offer Schwarzenegger One Billion Dollars," "What's a gram of cocaine go for where you live?," "Who should be the next Drug Czar?," "yet another letter from a medical marijuana patient that the feds claim don't exist...

and yet another letter from a medical marijuana patient that the feds claim don't exist...

by borden, August 09, 2007, 03:14pm
We received this message earlier in the week:
I have had to move back home to a state that does not allow the medical use of marijuana -- the state I was in before, Maine, allowed it --

Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar

by borden, August 03, 2007, 01:11pm, (Issue #496)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available

by borden, August 03, 2007, 01:11pm, (Issue #496)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!

by borden, August 03, 2007, 01:11pm, (Issue #496)
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Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, August 03, 2007, 01:11pm, (Issue #496)
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Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, August 03, 2007, 12:47pm, (Issue #496)
Reader Blogs picking up, all sorts of marijuana stuff, Clinton & Obama on needle exchange, drug policy softball team scores top spot in league, more...

... and Another Letter from a Medical Marijuana Patient

by borden, August 01, 2007, 04:26am
Another patient story posted on the comment boards:
Six years ago I was literally struck down with Fibromyalgia. I simply couldn't get out of bed one morning.

Important Exchange Re: Clinton & Obama on Needle Exchange

by borden, July 31, 2007, 08:52pm
Ben Smith's blog on The Politico web site today discussed an important exchange of comments between Hi

Why did alcohol prohibition end?

by borden, July 30, 2007, 07:56pm
Did the "tax-it and make money for the government" argument carry the day in the fight to end alcohol prohibition?

Republican and Democratic Senators Query Gonzales on Crack Sentencing Views

by borden, July 30, 2007, 07:25pm
User "puregenius" reports over in the Reader Blogs that Republican and Democratic senators -- Jeff Ses

Five Architects of the Drug War -- and the Result of Their Work

by borden, July 30, 2007, 06:16pm
Alex Coolman's Drug Law Blog has published a list -- with pictures -- of "5 Bumbling Architects of Amer

New Resource on Judges' Views on Federal Sentencing -- Basically, They Hate It

by borden, July 30, 2007, 05:02pm
Law professor David Zlotnick has released a new resource on judicial views on the federal sentencing system, available on his web site at the Roger Williams School of Law (link below).

Some Good Forfeiture News

by borden, July 28, 2007, 11:46pm
Some good news on the forfeiture front, via TalkLeft: California's Supreme Court has found that city ordinances allowi

Another Pain Doctor on the Ropes

by borden, July 28, 2007, 11:13pm
Another pain physician, Dr.

Another Letter from a Medical Marijuana Patient

by borden, July 28, 2007, 12:32am
This one is excerpted from a post made anonymously on our comment boards by a reader from Ohio:
I have had multiple sclerosis and a seizure disorder for 13 years now.

I'm as angry as I've been in a long time over this one...

by borden, July 27, 2007, 10:12pm
This one has me as angry as I've been in a long time. Tampa Bay, Florida, area resident Mark O'Hara served two years of a 25-year mandatory minimum sentence for 58 Vicodin pills.

photos from LA raid aftermath on LAist web site

by borden, July 27, 2007, 01:38pm
Photos from the aftermath of the raid on LA's Cannabis Patients Group coop, including the civil disobedience action, can be found online

Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!

by borden, July 27, 2007, 02:16am, (Issue #495)
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Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available

by borden, July 27, 2007, 02:16am, (Issue #495)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar

by borden, July 27, 2007, 02:15am, (Issue #495)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, July 27, 2007, 02:15am, (Issue #495)
Do you read Drug War Chronicle? If so, we need your feedback to evaluate our work and make the case for Drug War Chronicle to funders. We need donations too.

Analysis: Who Voted for Medical Marijuana This Time? Breakdown by Vote, Party, and Changes from '06

by borden, July 27, 2007, 02:15am, (Issue #495)
Detailed compilation and analysis of which members of Congress voted which way on the annual Hinchey/Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment to bar the Dept. of Justice from undermining state medical marijuana laws.

Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, July 27, 2007, 01:59am, (Issue #495)
ONDCP's 'Cocaine Shortage' Announcement is Pure Fiction," "Rumors of a DEA Blog Prompt Curiosity & Concern," "Even Anti-Meth Activists Oppose the Drug War," "Letter from a Would-Be Medical Marijuana Patient," more...

Detailed Compilation -- Stats and Voting Lists -- for Tonight's Hinchey Medical Marijuana Vote

by borden, July 26, 2007, 02:04am
The Hinchey results are in, losing by a vote of 165-262.

Meanwhile...

by borden, July 25, 2007, 11:08pm
Meanwhile, the DEA raided at least six medical marijuana dispensaries in LA.

Hinchey Roll Call -- medical marijuana amendment did not pass, total not yet available (online at least)

by borden, July 25, 2007, 10:57pm
[UPDATE: I've learned by email the vote was 165-262.

Hinchey Medical Marijuana Amendment Does Not Pass -- No Vote Count Yet

by borden, July 25, 2007, 09:31pm
I just saw the following on the House Clerk's web site, posted at 8:31pm:
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conc

Letter from a Would-Be Medical Marijuana Patient

by borden, July 25, 2007, 09:15pm
Following is one of the many emails we got from people since beginning our Hinchey amendment medical marijuana effort last week.

Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available

by borden, July 20, 2007, 12:09am, (Issue #494)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar

by borden, July 20, 2007, 12:09am, (Issue #494)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!

by borden, July 20, 2007, 12:08am, (Issue #494)
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Web Scan

by borden, July 20, 2007, 12:02am, (Issue #494)
World Politics Review on Colombia fumigation, The Nation on pardons for drug offenders, American Prospect on crack sentencing reform prospects, The Hill, Ibogaine in Barcelona, DrugTruth Network, Belgium drug consumption rooms video, France marijuana study

Weekly: Blogging @ the Speakeasy

by borden, July 20, 2007, 12:02am, (Issue #494)
Time for the Drug Czar to Resign, Sen. Coburn Thinks Police Should Shoot Drug Suspects in the Back, Clinton Promises to End Federal Raids on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, The Difference Between Pot Growers and Terrorists, Rudy Giuliani's Position on OxyContin and Pain Management Is Correct , When Oversight Means Oversight: Waxman Goes After Walters for Politicizing His Office, more...

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, July 20, 2007, 12:02am, (Issue #494)
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Editorial: Why Should the Drug Czar's Office Even Exist?

by borden, July 19, 2007, 11:53pm, (Issue #494)
Catching the drug czar's office in deceptions, misconduct, and generally inexplicable behavior is getting to be like shooting fish in a barrel. What is the evidence to justify the agency's existence at all?

You know the drug war's been lost when they're growing marijuana right outside the DEA's office...

by borden, July 15, 2007, 12:37am
Via I Was the State: DEA discovers marijuana growing

Hurwitz Receives Lesser Sentence Second Time Around, Could Be Free in 17 Months

by borden, July 14, 2007, 11:54pm
Via John Tierney at the New York Times, posted late last night...

We Want Pardons: Petition to Save Bush's Legacy by Persuading Him to Pardon Thousands of Nonviolent Drug Offenders

by borden, July 13, 2007, 12:30pm, (Issue #493)
While President Bush has pardoned 12 Thanksgiving turkeys in an annual White House ceremony since taking office 6 1/2 years ago, he has commuted only four people's prison sentences, one of them Scooter Libby's. We want more!

Announcement: DRCNet Content Syndication Feeds Now Available for YOUR Web Site!

by borden, July 12, 2007, 11:50pm, (Issue #493)
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Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar

by borden, July 12, 2007, 11:50pm, (Issue #493)
Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Announcement: DRCNet RSS Feeds Now Available

by borden, July 12, 2007, 11:49pm, (Issue #493)
A new way for you to receive DRCNet articles -- Drug War Chronicle and more -- is now available.

Feedback: Do You Read Drug War Chronicle?

by borden, July 12, 2007, 11:49pm, (Issue #493)
Do you read Drug War Chronicle? If so, we need your feedback to evaluate our work and make the case for Drug War Chronicle to funders. We need donations too.

Appeal: A Victory is In the Works, With Your Help

by borden, July 12, 2007, 11:49pm, (Issue #493)
Our multi-year campaign to repeal an infamous law that denies financial aid to students because of drug convictions may soon ride to a successful conclusion.

Web Scan

by borden, July 12, 2007, 11:47pm, (Issue #493)
PBS on Lakota hemp, marijuana and religion, SSDP Voice, Heroin Times, NPR on DC needle exchange, Exodus Transitional Community, Cannabinoid Chronicles, LEAP web site relaunched

A better mayor, on drug policy at least...

by borden, July 12, 2007, 11:06pm
Vancouver's former mayor, Larry Campbell (now a member of Canada's Senate) has an editorial in the

We Want Pardons: Petition to Save Bush's Legacy by Persuading Him to Pardon Thousands of Nonviolent Drug Offenders

by borden, July 11, 2007, 02:50pm
Don't just pardon turkeys, President Bush! We, the undersigned, ask you to save your legacy by releasing thousands of nonviolent drug offenders from federal prison before you leave office.

DEA Pain Hearings Tomorrow

by borden, July 11, 2007, 11:46am
The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will be holding oversight hearings tomorrow on the DEA's Regulation of Pain and Medicine. This is long overdue.

Report: Life Sentences: Collateral Sanctions Associated with Marijuana Offenses

by borden, July 05, 2007, 02:01pm
The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics has released an important new report, "Life Sentences: Collateral Sanction

Radley Balko police raids testimony, House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime

by borden, July 02, 2007, 11:53pm
Transcript on Reason web site here. The following quote sums up the root lack of logic at work in the use of SWAT teams for

Silly Scott

by borden, July 02, 2007, 11:06pm
Scott was being silly last Friday night when he published his "D.C. Needle Exchange Ban Lifted: Let's Do Heroin!" blog post.

President Bush's Commutation Total Just Increased by 50%!

by borden, July 02, 2007, 09:52pm
Bush pardons turkeys and political allies but lets

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